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The simple past
The simple past
• In the english language we can find
to types of verbs
• Regular
• Irregular
Look at the list of past tense verb…
Which verbs are regular and
which verbs are irregular?
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Worked
Lived
Enjoyed
Taught
Loved
Wrote
Became
Cried
Did
Studied
regular
regular
regular
irregular
regular
irregular
irregular
regular
irregular
regular
• What is a REGULAR verb?
• End with –ed
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Simple form
Watch
Wash
Love
past form
watched
washed
loved
• There some exeptions
Regular verbs ending with Y…. Change the Y into a i and add the ED
Cry
cried
Tom’s brother cried all night long
Regular verbs ending with E… just add D
Love
loved
She loved this movie when she was with her boyfriend
Exeptions:
Enjoy
enjoyed
I enjoyed your company last week
• What is an irregular verb?
• Those verbs that don’t end with ED
In some cases can change just one letter
Like in:
Simple form
simple past
Become
became
Drive
drove
Give
gave
Forget
forgot
Other irregular verbs change its form completely as
in:
• Simple form
simple past
Buy
bought
Teach
taught
Sell
sold
Take
took
bought
Jessica ________ (buy)
a nice house in the
Beach
took
He ________(take)
his car and ______(drive) to
his girlfriend’s house
drove
• There are some verbs that don’t change at all:
Simple form
simple past
• Cut
cut
• Set
set
• Put
put
• Hit
hit
She hit his brother in the face
Yesterday I cut my hair. How I miss it
Let’s see some exercises
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Tina_____ (buy) a new car
She ____ (lose) her keys
He ____ (win) the football cup of his school
Jonny____ (be) an amazing person
We_____ (love) eat pop corn at the cinema
We ____ (go) to the park last Sunday
They_____ (watch) a TV show
Negative from
To form negative sentences with the regular
and irregular verbs you have to use DID
NOT or DIDN’T and the verb stay in the infinitive
form
Example:
I played voleyball yesterday
I didn’t play voleyball yesterday.
Exercice:
Change these positive sentences into negatives
o I loved her ___________________________________________________
o You took my car ______________________________________________
o We went to the post office _______________________________________
o She had a pen __________________________________________________
o I watched TV last night __________________________________________
o I closed my bank account_______________________________________
o I had a shower _________________________________________________
o He red harry Potter three times last year___________________________
How can we make questions with short answers in simple past?
• In order to create questions follow this
formula…
DID+ pronoun or subject+ verb (infinitive)+complement?
Did +
you
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Answer
Yes, I did / No, I didn’t
sell
+ your car ?
Did + she + lose + her keys? (√)
Did + we + drive+ to your house last night? (X)
• Wh- questions
In order to use Wh-questions you can folllow
this formula…
Wh Q + did + pronoun + verb inf.+ complement
Where + did + you + sleep + last night?
Answer:
pRonoun + verb (past) + complement
I
slept
in my uncle’s house
exercises
Order the following sentences.
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She/ leave/ where/the car/ did? she leaft the car inside my garden
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why/ move/ he/did/ here? because she fought with her mom
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What did you do last night? a party/ I/ went /to
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Did you watch TV last night? did/ I/ yes.
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What did she buy? bought/ she/ some new clothes
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you/ sleep/ well/ did? Yes, I did thank you